Word Meanings - EARNESTFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Serious. Chaucer.
Related words: (words related to EARNESTFUL)
- SERIOUS
1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting - JOCOSERIOUS
Mingling mirth and seriousness. M. Green.